Take Weld at his word: Duke De Sessa has Classic potential

When you’re young, experience is overrated; when you’re old, you can’t beat it. My feeling is that the modern world is advancing technologically at such a rate that the advantage is with the youth, but that’s not to say the wise old owls don’t have something to offer; they most certainly do.

Take Dermot Weld. He has always been a pioneer, and back in 1990 he won the Belmont Stakes with Go And Go and then he was the first European to win the Melbourne Cup with Vintage Crop in 1993. When he says one of his horses is “very, very good” and a “Classic horse in the making”, we should all sit up and take notice.

Weld was talking about his recent Curragh maiden winner Duke De Sessa and, given how many good juveniles he has this season and how many have been through his hands over the years, it’s almost certain this son of Lope De Vega has been showing the vastly experienced trainer something out of the ordinary.